Good morning, I love Sundays!

Hey it's that day when you can listen to wkcr (www.wkcr.org) again, so i'm in a good mood. Also I'm in Piermont and the river is partially frozen so it's really quite beautiful. And I made some really good coffee.

Okay so I think I spend more time studying Japanese than Chinese, even though Chinese I have four times a week. My brain is so much more attuned to learning Chinese so I just soak that up. The Japanese leaves my brain every night when I go to sleep. Argh. This morning I feel as though I don't know anything again.

I recall that someone asked me about the rest of the days in Chinese: sorry to let you down, in fact the answer is that Sunday is Sunday, but from the on it's very simple: 星期一，星期二, which is like weekday one (Monday), weekday two (Tuesday), and so on on through Saturday, (weekday six).

So apparently Japanese people really love yoga, because I met another person in yoga class from Japan. Man was she flexible. Okay that's not jealousy, just an observation. She asked me if I'd been to Japan so I said, にほんへ きませんでした. My yoga teacher likes to go to Japan and teach a couple of times a year, so I guess I can understand why she has this following of 日本の學生 (do I need a 人 in there?). My teacher is always talking about how the Japanese are great students and interested in learning yoga, so I guess in answer to your question, Satosensei, you should give it a shot. And I can refer you to my teacher who will be very excited about having another I generally prefer not to make broad cultural generalizations, especially when it implies that somehow Americans are not such good students in comparison. I totally can believe it, though. But if you have any sort of cultural insights as to why it might be that the Japanese are more committed students than I'd love to hear about it.

In other news, I wrote a cool paper about a Muromachi jar for my Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Art class. I'm very pleased with myself.